RE: [asa] Education, Medicine, and Evolution

Hi Colin, you wrote:
 
>I posted on my blog what I thought was a fair question for
evolutionists regarding time and
the number of genetic changes needed to reach humanity. Unfortunately
one evol didn't think
it was even a reasonable question.<
 
It's not reasonable as you already know the end result and are acting as
though this is the only possible outcome. It would be kinda like
putting a note in a bottle at Miami and one year later it washes up in
Liverpool then acting like it was some kind of miracle that it happened
to land just there. It was going to land somewhere. Evolution is like
that. It doesn't have a direction. Organisms just change and adapt
through time and end up today in a particular configuration suitable for
survival. The miracle is not in us being here because something else
would be here if we weren't. The miracle is that God in his
foreknowledge would know we humans would be the present-day result
without his having to take intermittent corrective actions along the way
to ensure the result.
 
What would have happened if that one ape-man transitional being who was
born with a chromosomal fusing had been devoured by a leopard before he
had any offspring?
 
Dick Fischer, author, lecturer
Historical Genesis from Adam to Abraham
 <http://www.historicalgenesis.com> www.historicalgenesis.com
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Collin R Brendemuehl
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 8:02 AM
To: asa
Subject: Re: [asa] Education, Medicine, and Evolution
 
Bill & Rich,

I do appreciate all your thoughts. My field for the past 23 years has
been software development.
But, like many, I was ignorant of the theory structures behind CS,
things that help build better applications.
Reading Suppe showed me these model and mechanism/schema theory
structures.

Should I be surprised that even some in the biological sciences might be
more concerned
with the day-to-day production of their jobs than with the theory
structures they are constrained by?
I don't know the answer to that question.

Over the past year I've made a few foolish or otherwise short-sighted
statements on some of the
evolution blogs. I'm becoming a little more calculated and calculated
these days.

I posted on my blog what I thought was a fair question for evolutionists
regarding time and
the number of genetic changes needed to reach humanity. Unfortunately
one evol didn't think
it was even a reasonable question. I'll post it here later for some
analysis and reasonable critique.

At 06:52 PM 5/31/2008, you wrote:

Rich wrote

So, if you are an evangelical lay person there is no need to wring your
hands and say woe is me. You can find out what is going on if you go to
the right sources and apply enough effort. We live in an age where the
information is freely available to anyone. What you will also find is
that the professionals and specialists will respect you for what you are
doing and will help you if you are struggling. Being deliberately
ignorant and then attacking those same specialists only brings, well,
contempt.

Bill:
Absolutely. Like Rich, I'm an engineer. I believe the most important
skill I learned in graduate school was the ability to learn about a new
field. I wouldn't try to do original research in an area like
evolutionary biology, but I have read some of the literature and learned
from it. Most secular scientists would appreciate answering intelligent
questions from an evangelical, and if there were more evangelicals
asking intelligent questions, evangelicals would have a better
reputation among scientists, and would probably win more scientists to
Christ.

 
William E. (Bill) Hamilton, Ph.D. Member ASA
248.821.8156 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
http://www.bricolagia.blogspot.com/
Want to help a child?:
http://www.compassion.com/sponsor/index.asp?referer=85198

Sincerely,

Collin Brendemuehl
http://www.brendemuehl.net <http://www.brendemuehl.net/>

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot
lose"
                                                     -- Jim Elliott

To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@calvin.edu with
"unsubscribe asa" (no quotes) as the body of the message.
Received on Sun Jun 1 10:03:51 2008